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The Rest Is Slander: Five Stories

The Rest Is Slander: Five Stories

Bernhard, Thomas
Robertson, Douglas

Hardcover

Series: German List

General Fiction

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ISBN10: 1803090677
ISBN13: 9781803090672
Publisher: Seagull Books
Published: Dec 16 2022
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.80
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
A collection of previously untranslated stories from a master of twentieth-century Austrian literature, Thomas Bernhard.

The cold increases with the clarity, said Thomas Bernhard while accepting a major literary prize in 1965. That clarity was the postwar realization that the West's last remaining cultural reference points were being swept away by the ever-greater commodification of humankind. Collecting five stylistically transitional tales by Bernhard, all of which take place in sites of extreme cold, this volume extends that bleak vision of the master Austrian storyteller.

In Ungenach, the reluctant heir of an enormous estate chooses to give away his legacy to an assortment of oddballs as he discovers the past of his older brother, who was murdered during a career in futile colonialist philanthropy. In The Weatherproof Cape, a lawyer tries to maintain a sense of familial solidarity with a now-dead client with the help of an unremarkable piece of clothing. Midland in Stilfs casts a jaundiced eye on the laughable efforts of a cosmopolitan foreigner to attain local authenticity on a moribund Alpine farmstead. In At the Ortler, two middle-aged brothers--one a scientist, the other an acrobat--meditate on their unusual career paths while they climb a mountain to reclaim a long-abandoned family property. And in At the Timberline, the unexpected arrival of a young couple in a mountain village leads to the discovery of a scandalous crime that casts a shadow on the personal life of the policeman investigating it.

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